ACCESS: design and preliminary performance

Mary Elizabeth Kaiser; Jeffrey W. Kruk; Stephan R. McCandliss; Bernard J. Rauscher; Randy A. Kimble; Russell S. Pelton; David J. Sahnow; W. V. Dixon; Paul D. Feldman; Bryan W. Gaither; Justin S. Lazear; H. Warren Moos; Adam G. Riess; Dominic J. Benford; Jonathan P. Gardner; Robert J. Hill; Duncan M. Kahle; D. Brent Mott; Augustyn Waczynski; Yiting Wen; Bruce E. Woodgate; Ralph C. Bohlin; Susana E. Deustua; Robert Kurucz; Michael Lampton; Saul Perlmutter; Edward L. Wright

doi:10.1117/12.857796

10 August 2010 ACCESS: design and preliminary performance

Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Stephan R. McCandliss, Bernard J. Rauscher, Randy A. Kimble, Russell S. Pelton, David J. Sahnow, W. V. Dixon, Paul D. Feldman, Bryan W. Gaither, Justin S. Lazear, H. Warren Moos, Adam G. Riess, Dominic J. Benford, Jonathan P. Gardner, Robert J. Hill, Duncan M. Kahle, D. Brent Mott, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen, Bruce E. Woodgate, Ralph C. Bohlin, Susana E. Deustua, Robert Kurucz, Michael Lampton, Saul Perlmutter, Edward L. Wright

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Proceedings Volume 7731, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave; 77313I (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857796
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

ACCESS, Absolute Color Calibration Experiment for Standard Stars, is a series of rocket-borne sub-orbital missions and ground-based experiments designed to enable improvements in the precision of the astrophysical flux scale through the transfer of absolute laboratory detector standards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to a network of stellar standards with a calibration accuracy of 1% and a spectral resolving power of 500 across the 0.35.1.7μm bandpass. Establishing improved spectrophotometric standards is important for a broad range of missions and is relevant to many astrophysical problems. Systematic errors associated with problems such as dark energy now compete with the statistical errors and thus limit our ability to answer fundamental questions in astrophysics. The ACCESS design, calibration strategy, and an updated preliminary performance estimate are discussed.

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Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Stephan R. McCandliss, Bernard J. Rauscher, Randy A. Kimble, Russell S. Pelton, David J. Sahnow, W. V. Dixon, Paul D. Feldman, Bryan W. Gaither, Justin S. Lazear, H. Warren Moos, Adam G. Riess, Dominic J. Benford, Jonathan P. Gardner, Robert J. Hill, Duncan M. Kahle, D. Brent Mott, Augustyn Waczynski, Yiting Wen, Bruce E. Woodgate, Ralph C. Bohlin, Susana E. Deustua, Robert Kurucz, Michael Lampton, Saul Perlmutter, and Edward L. Wright "ACCESS: design and preliminary performance", Proc. SPIE 7731, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 77313I (10 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857796

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